Bundy, from his home in Emmett, Idaho, says his priority now is spending time with his wife and six children. But remnants of the standoffs still bubble up each day.

"I'll always get someone that calls me," Bundy said at his home in mid-October, after catching up with a friend calling from federal prison. "Life has never, ever been the same -- in a good and a hard way. I think it'll take years and years to kind of dissolve."

And in many ways, he doesn't want it to dissolve. Bundy accepts speaking engagements across the West at conferences and rallies that touch on gun rights, environmentalism and agriculture -- some of them controversial. He often tells the stories of the standoffs and the subsequent trials. And, of course, he advocates the view that has come to be synonymous with the Bundy family: that the federal government has no authority to own or manage land in the states.

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Francis Soltis

I SUPPORT CLIVEN BUNDY

Dan Baer

America is Sickened and Tired by the over top corruption and is willing to act... That’ why Trump was Elected... So act Trump!!! I Totally support you but do not see anything but a Churning of the Sewer... Remember you were also supposed to have a Real 9/11 investigation.... Hummm I wonder which B...(More)ad Guys & Gals conspired in that!!!

Howard Mancha

Whatever became of our protection by law from double jeopordy or jhave we lost that right also ?? Appeals to Mr Sessions for justice in this Bundy case have met with total indifference .I am extremely disapointed in him whom I once had confidence in :acting as just another swamp dweller who nee...(More)ds removed .
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Sam Bushman

I am a national syndicated talk show host - Host of Liberty RoundTable Live. Would love to have Larry on the radio with me to help promote and cover this vital case. I just had Cliven,k Ryan and Ammon on as well.

Rhonda Delligatti

THE CORRUPTION DEMONSTRATED BY THE BLM OFFICIALS IN THE CLIVEN BUNDY & RELATED CASES IS AN OBAMA ADMIN. ABOMINATION!
ONLY REAL NEWS WITH DAVID KNIGHT HAS EXTENSIVELY REPORTED ON IT & HE IS BEING CENSORED WITH MANY OTHER CONSERVATIVES BY THE monopolistic big tech giants like "Goolag" ... who are glo...(More)balist traitors with no accountability.

Madeleine siemienska

Why is this disgraceful case still going on? Everyone knows Las vegas is filled with corrupt law enforcement. Put a stop to this mess and let this family get on with their lives!! I think the government needs to pay retribution for how they tried to over power and steal this family's land and livel...(More)ihood. For goodness sake, these govt. hired mercenaries killed their cattle. Why is this case still going on! Our govt should be embarrassed for their actions under the Obama administration! Don't let these corrupt, bias officials harrass this family any longer!

Mrs Micki L Zettel

This is obscene what you are doing to our American citizens.
Mr President, looks like it's time for Mr Sessions to leave his position and take the corrupt others with him.

Justin Kase

Jeff Sessions is bought and paid for so I ask President Trump to end this politically motivated attack against the Bundy family. Clean house Mr. President even if it requires bringing in the Marines to drag those deep state anti-American crooks to prison. LOCK THEM UP!!!

Charles Edward Rush

It is time to end the Deep State (Washington Swamp) illegal and unlawful harassment of the Bundy family and their friends. It is also time to end the Muller investigation of Donald Trump.

Steven Guy Cinqmars

President please pardon the Bundy family. They are real American patriots defending themselves from tyranny and injustice, and they have suffered more than enough for that. Additionally, please go after the real wrongdoers, the BLM, the prosecutors, and those that would have profited from the Bundy'...(More)s loosing their land, Harry Reid and the Democrat deep state.

Kirby Foster

I am literally sick of the treatment the Bundy family has received.
I am starting to believe Sessions is just another swamp creature. Please change my mind Mr. Sessions.

philip laws

Disgusting persecution of these poor ranchers
Sessions grow a pair or just resign

Sharon Ranalli

Mr. Sessions, it is obvious the Deep State has something on you and is manipulating you. Be a man! Review this case and then resign!

B Green

The Fed Gov't is out of control-we need to stop it. That's why we elected you Mr Trump.

Wayne Bachmann

Clean the swamp. Get rid of the shit in the swamp. Obey the organic Constitution our Founding Fathers gave us. Obey the Magna Carta, or get the Hell out of this country.

Carl Estes

There is no reason to appeal the dismissal by Judge Gloria Navarro of the Bundys. Tell Jeff Sessions to cease and desist, then fire him.

Rosemary

This is a disgrace. Maybe the Clintons threatened him with two to the back of the head suicide. If President Trump doesn't fire him and his cronies I'm afraid this country is going to be in worse shape than it is. People are tired of this.

Robert Scherzinger

Please dismiss the case against Cliven Bundy.
Free Cliven Bundy now!

Kathy Kay Benudiz

Jeff Sessions is THE hugest disappointment to me! I cannot believe that this little weasel ever truly supported President Trump! He was obviously there to be a mole if then Candidate Trump were to win the election! He is a corrupt and blatant liar and needs to be fired and loose ALL pension money he...(More) may have been entitled to and he also needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for sedition!

Rhonda

This is a travesty!
Lady Justice has become a whore!
Her blindfold has fallen and she has been sold out to the highest bidder! There is no justice in the DOJ!
President Trump keep your word CLEAN OUT THIS SWAMP! Fire these people they want to destroy America!

Mark L Fiorino

Sessions is a spineless coward and needs to GO NOW!! I can't understand why Trump has not sacked the POS yet!!!

Thomas Simpson

An injustice done to someone somewhere, is an injustice done to everyone everywhere.

Donald Boggs

Sessions and his grossly corrupt, illegitimate DOJ are begging for a revolution with the people. What do they have on Session's that he's become so unconstitutional and unAmerican. Fire him and the rest of the commies and damn the fake news media

William McBreen

It’s his accusers that should be jailed.

Linda

After reading this article, it reminded me of a book I once read, "Rainwater" by Sandra Brown. Great story were the local bully politicians were doing this same thing. But this story took place back in the 1940 . This is absolutely absurd that this kind of behavior is still alive! Mr.president do so...(More)mething about this.

Today, candidate for Nevada Governor Ryan Bundy filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government regarding their prosecution of him and other family members claiming "malicious prosecution."

Bundy retained Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch to represent him. Ryan Bundy spent two years in federal jail awaiting trial only to have the case thrown out after U.S. District Court Judge Navarro found Federal Prosecutors had failed to turn over numerous documents in Bundy's case leading to a full dismissal.

LAS VEGAS — A rancher's son now campaigning as an independent for Nevada governor filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current and former U.S. government officials, alleging malicious prosecution after a 2014 armed standoff with federal land agents.

Ryan Bundy and his father, Cliven Bundy, said outside the U.S. courthouse in Las Vegas that prosecutors tried to wrongfully convict them for peacefully stopping a roundup of Bundy cattle by U.S. authorities from federal land near the family ranch in Bunkerville.

The ad, which played in a Reno radio market on Friday, attacks Laxalt over his position on the "red flag" gun laws, that allow law enforcement or family members to petition a court to temporarily seize firearms from people who pose serious threats of violence to themselves or others.

But now someone has emerged who is worthy of my support and who has actually demonstrated the courage to take on the tyrannical federal government in particular. His name is Ryan Bundy, and he is running for the governorship of the state of Nevada.

A rancher's son now campaigning as an independent for Nevada governor is suing current and former U.S. government officials, alleging that malicious prosecution led to the dismissed criminal case stemming from a 2014 armed standoff with federal land agents.

Ryan Bundy and his father, Cliven Bundy, said Wednesday in front of the U.S. courthouse in Las Vegas that prosecutors tried to wrongfully convict them for peacefully stopping a roundup of Bundy cattle from federal land near the family ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.

A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Nevada independent gubernatorial candidate Ryan Bundy on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former federal agents.

Outside the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse where a judge cleared him of felony charges in January, Bundy told reporters and a small group of supporters that his constitutional rights had been violated when federal agents moved in on the family ranch in April 2014. Alongside him were his father, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was also cleared in the case, and Washington D.C. lawyer Larry Klayman.

LAS VEGAS — A rancher's son now campaigning as an independent for Nevada governor filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current and former U.S. government officials, alleging malicious prosecution after a 2014 armed standoff with federal land agents.

Ryan Bundy and his father, Cliven Bundy, said outside the U.S. courthouse in Las Vegas that prosecutors tried to wrongfully convict them for peacefully stopping a roundup of Bundy cattle by U.S. authorities from federal land near the family ranch in Bunkerville.

Ryan Bundy, one of the leaders of the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge who was acquitted of all charges and then beat federal conspiracy charges in Nevada stemming from a standoff near Bunkerville, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against current and former heads of the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI.

The suit , filed on Bundy's 46th birthday in federal court in the District of Columbia, alleges he was subjected to "malicious prosecution'' as retaliation for protecting the Bundy Ranch in April 2014 when federal authorities moved in to seize Bundy cattle that were grazing unlawfully after his father, Cliven Bundy, failed to pay grazing fees and fines for two decades.

(Las Vegas, Nevada, October 30, 2018). Ryan Bundy, candidate for Nevada Governor and his father, Cliven Bundy, will hold a press conference tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31, 2018, in front of the federal courthouse in Nevada where the fatally flawed indictment against them and other peaceful protesters, who had lawfully exercised their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and to keep and bear arms under the First and Second Amendments to successfully stand down a tyrannical federal government at Bunkerville, had been dismissed last January, 2018.

Incredibly, the U.S. Attorney's Office filed a notice to appeal this dismissal.

This indictment was dismissed because agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. Department of Justice were caught lying to the court and withholding evidence favorable to the Bundys -- thus attempting to wrongfully convict them with mandatory life sentences.

Even an "unfriendly" federal judge, Gloria Navarro -- who had been recommended to the bench by former Senator Harry Reid who, had branded the Bundys "domestic terrorists" -- and who had been called a friend of the prosecutors by the mainstream "Las Vegas Review Journal," found it necessary to throw the case out for the federal government's egregious misconduct.

Now Ryan Bundy is fighting back against federal overreach and corruption in the courts and seeking to not just protect the constitutional rights of the people of Clark County, where the Bundy Ranch is located, but all Nevadans and Americans. The lawsuit which he filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will be distributed at the press conference, which will be attended by Ryan and Cliven and other members of the Bundy family, as well as supporters.

Mr. Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former federal prosecutor, and who filed the suit with the Bundys in his private capacity, will also be present to speak. He will also discuss another complaint which he filed for Cliven Bundy, seeking a declaration that the land upon which he and others ranch, live and do business is owned not by the federal government, but as of right by the people of Clark County and Nevada.

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Ryan Bundy's run for Nevada governor is surprising only because he was supposed to be either dead or in federal prison by now.

Instead, the 46-year-old son of rancher Cliven Bundy is making his pitch as an unaffiliated candidate to "take Nevada back," bringing his family's decades-old fight against federal land management to the voters in the Bundy saga's latest stranger-than-fiction twist.

Rancher Cliven Bundy, cleared of federal charges this year, refiled a lawsuit against Nevada and Clark County governments.

The previous suit, filed in January, was thrown out after Bundy and his lawyers failed to take action in the case.

The suit claims that former President Barack Obama's late 2016 establishment of Gold Butte National Monument, which occurred while the rancher was in federal custody, was "as illegal as it is unlawful" and would preclude him from continuing to function on his land and destroy his livelihood.

Two men charged and acquitted for their roles in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff are suing the federal government for damages from the "demonstrably false charges," according to the men's attorney.

Rick Lovelien and Steven Stewart were brought up on 10 charges including conspiracy and assault of a federal agent after they participated in a standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy against Bureau of Land Management (BLM) law enforcement officers. Lovelien and Stewart were acquitted of all charges and released from prison on Aug. 22, 2017.

There is good news today, though it would only be sweeter if the individuals who engaged in the lawlessness that they engaged in were actually held accountable rather than the taxpayers they are supposed to serve. Nevertheless, a $60 million lawsuit was filed on behalf of two men who faced multiple charges in the 2014 Bundy Ranch protest against federal lawlessness in 2014.

Both Rick Lovelien and Steven Stewart are being represented by attorney Larry Klayman, who is also representing rancher Cliven Bundy in his fight against the Justice Department as they seek to overturn the dismissal of his trial and retry him again. Both many faced numerous accounts and were acquitted of all charges.

A pair of former defendants cleared of federal charges in the Bunkerville standoff have filed a lawsuit against the prosecutors who took them to trial, with other government authorities.

Rick Lovelien, of Montana, and Steven Stewart, of Idaho, are asking for $60 million in the lawsuit, which names Las Vegas prosecutors Steven Myhre, Daniel Schiess and Nadia Ahmed as defendants and includes former FBI Director James Comey, former Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze and the agencies of the FBI and BLM. The lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C., this week.

(Washington, D.C., August 9, 2018). Today, Larry Klayman announced the filing of a $60 million dollar lawsuit against federal prosecutors Steven Myhre, Daniel Schiess and Nadia Ahmed of the U.S. Attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") Neil Kornze, the FBI, and BLM, who are alleged to have entrapped, manufactured, and used false evidence to indict peaceful protesters Rick Lovelien and Steven Stewart in the criminal prosecutions stemming from the 2014 successful standoff at the Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.

Lovelien and Stewart were charged for allegedly conspiring with Cliven Bundy and his sons to threaten federal agents at gunpoint during the armed standoff. The plaintiffs' complaint, which was filed in D.C. federal court (case no. 18-cv-01869) alleges that the prosecutors, without any evidence, falsely entrapped, charged and then maliciously prosecuted Lovelien and Stewart for obstruction of justice, along with several other demonstrably false charges.

Lovelien and Stewart were then denied bail by a Senator Harry Reid and Obama-appointed federal Judge Gloria Navarro and were left to "rot" in prison for two years before they were finally tried. During this time, the plaintiffs allegedly suffered great emotional distress, physical harm, and financial damage. The complaint also seeks punitive damages.

The jury ultimately acquitted both Lovelien and Stewart based on the complete lack of any evidence that they had committed any crime, much less conspired with Cliven Bundy and his sons.

Later, at the subsequent trial of Cliven Bundy and his sons, which not coincidentally resulted in a dismissal of their indictment, it was also revealed that the prosecutors had hidden exculpatory evidence and their witnesses from the FBI and BLM had lied, under oath, both at the Lovelien/Stewart trial and the Bundys' trial. Judge Navarro was thus forced to dismiss the supersedeas indictment against the Bundys. To this date, Attorney General Sessions has protected his prosecutors and taken no action to even discipline them. Recently, Sessions outrageously authorized them to appeal the Bundy dismissal.

Klayman had this to say:

"The politically motived malicious prosecutions against my clients and resulting cover-up (which also includes Cliven Bundy and his sons) violated every norm of due process and equal justice. I am confident that the defendants will be made to pay dearly by the jury. This punishment will help deter government prosecutorial misconduct, which has now been sanctioned even by our current Attorney General!"

For more information, contact daj142182@<NOSPAM>gmail.com or (424) 274-2579. The complaint can be found at www.larryklayman.com and is embedded below.

If you thought that the lying, deceit and outright corruption at my once proud alma mater, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), had reached an end point — with phony claims by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray promising to clean up the mess that resulted in the "witch hunt" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against President Donald Trump — think again!

Just yesterday, Sessions and equally corrupt prosecutors in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with appellate lawyers at "Main Justice" in Washington, D.C., incredibly had the shameless chutzpah to appeal the dismissal by Judge Gloria Navarro (who was not and remains no friend of Cliven Bundy, his family and the armed peaceful protesters who stood down a tyrannical government at Bunkerville in 2014) of the supercedeas indictment that resulted in an eventual criminal trial earlier this year after Cliven and his sons were imprisoned without bail for two years. The goal was to have the Bundys imprisoned for life.

(Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2, 2018). Today, the U.S Justice Department filed a notice of appeal seeking to preserve its "right" to seek a reversal of the dismissal by the Honorable Gloria Navarro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada of the supersedeas indictment which named Cliven Bundy and two of his sons, among other persons, as defendants following the successful standoff at the Bundy ranch a number of years ago.

Larry Klayman, legal counsel for Cliven Bundy, upon learning of the government's notice of appeal, issued a statement on behalf of Mr. Bundy. Klayman is the founder of both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and a former federal prosecutor. He is a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which will hear this appeal. The Ninth Circuit has already set a briefing schedule. Mr. Klayman had this to say:

"My client and friend Cliven Bundy is confident that the Ninth Circuit will affirm Judge Navarro's dismissal. It was based on gross prosecutorial misconduct by the Office of the U.S. Attorney in Las Vegas, as well as lying and deceit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Land Management, all of which withheld and secreted exculpatory evidence that would have assured Mr. Bundy's and the other defendants' acquittal had the case been presented to the jury.

"That the prosecutors who committed and furthered this gross prosecutorial misconduct would now seek to file a notice of appeal underscores that my once proud alma mater, the U.S. Department of Justice, has become the Department of Injustice. My client is confident that he will prevail yet again and that real justice will be done!"

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On January 8, 2018, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed "with prejudice" the federal criminal conspiracy and weapons charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons, and an independent militia member because of "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct."

The story behind the Bundy Ranch standoff and subsequent criminal cases cannot be fully understood without knowing that the case was precipitated by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. Reid coveted the Bundy Ranch grazing areas because Reid needed that land to advance the plans for him and his family to profit from the Obama administration's push to develop renewable energies.

Federal prosecutors moved Wednesday to dismiss the charges against four low-level figures in the 2014 Nevada standoff, including two Bundy brothers, but it wasn't all good news for the Bundy ranching family.

The prosecutors also asked U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gloria Navarro to reconsider her Jan. 8 decision to throw out the case against Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and Ryan Payne over "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct," including withholding evidence.

The Bundy camp has launched a legal offensive against federal and state authorities, filing three civil lawsuits in the last two weeks challenging public-lands policy in Nevada and alleging official misconduct in the 2016 Oregon standoff.

The spate of civil suits comes with the Bundys on something of a roll after twice thwarting federal prosecutors. A federal judge on Jan. 8 threw out charges against Cliven Bundy, sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and Ryan Payne stemming from the 2014 Nevada standoff over prosecutorial misconduct.

This was perhaps the biggest example of the Justice Department, BLM (Bureau of Land Management), and federal government corruption in modern American history... maybe in all of American history. The Bundys became the "whipping boys," and they became a symbol that you should never question what the federal government does or we will crush you, we will destroy you, and we will even kill you if you don't follow what we say.

LN: As Cliven Bundy was released, upon leaving the courthouse he was unbowed and made it clear that the war was not yet won:

What President Trump has experienced with regard to the deceit and prosecutorial misconduct with the FBI and the Justice Department, the Bundys have experienced, too, so they have similar experiences here. This cesspool of a Justice Department has been persecuting the President and doing a lot of illegal things, including illegal unmasking, wiretaps, and leaks of Grand Jury information...you name it. I think the President can identify with the Bundys and vice versa. That's why we're seeking a meeting with him because we need to work with him to clean this up.

When setting out what had happened to him at a press conference in front of the Sheriff's Station, Cliven Bundy recounted:

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was recently cleared of federal charges and freed from jail, is now turning his sights on state and county government.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Bundy's lawsuit filed Thursday in Clark County District Court claims that former President Barack Obama's late 2016 establishment of Gold Butte National Monument was "as illegal as it is unlawful" and would preclude him from continuing to function on his land and destroy his livelihood.

Lifelong Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, recently cleared of federal charges and freed from jail after nearly two years, has turned his sights on state and county government.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Clark County District Court, Bundy claimed that former President Barack Obama's late 2016 establishment of Gold Butte National Monument, which occurred while the rancher was in federal custody, was "as illegal as it is unlawful" and would preclude him from continuing to function on his land and destroy his livelihood.

Only days after a federal judge delivered a stinging rebuke to a prosecution assembled under Barack Obama's administration over a land standoff in Nevada, many of the participants are heading back to court.

This time, rancher Cliven Bundy is seeking a judicial ruling that the federal land in Nevada on which he was grazing cattle belongs to the state of Nevada and the people of Clark County, not the U.S. government.

Gold Butte rancher Cliven Bundy stood outside the Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday and called on Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo to protect him in his ongoing dispute with the federal government.

"Are you going to represent we the people?" Bundy said, directing his question to Lombardo during a news conference. "Or are you going to represent a federal bureaucracy, one that brought around 200 armed guns and stuck them down our throats four years ago?"

This week perhaps the biggest victory in the history of government prosecution and legal criminal defense was realized in a federal court in Las Vegas, Nevada. There, after Cliven Bundy and his sons, Ryan and Ammon, had been wrongfully charged by Obama deep state Justice Department prosecutors for conspiring to threaten federal law enforcement at gun point when Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents, with the support of Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents, stormed the Bundy Ranch at Bunkerville, threatened the lives of the Bundys, violently assaulted family members when they would not relinquish their cattle and then, for "good measure," killed tens of male cattle (aka bulls) used to procreate the herd and buried them in a secret mass grave, the federal judge who presided of the trial dismissed the government's indictment with prejudice based on flagrant and outrageous prosecutorial misconduct.

It's hard to imagine how the 2014 federal effort to impound Cliven Bundy's cattle could have gone any worse, but environmentalists are demanding that the Bureau of Land Management go back and try it again.

Days after a federal judge threw out the case against Mr. Bundy and two of his sons, environmental groups urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to remove the family's cattle from the property near Bunkerville, Nevada.

Following the Monday dismissal of charges against Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher is reportedly considering filing a lawsuit against the federal government for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations.

According to attorney Larry Klayman, a conservative activist and former Justice Department lawyer who has represented Bundy in other matters, Bundy, 71, might also file ethics complaints against federal prosecutors, The Washington Times reported.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the dismissal of federal charges against the Nevada rancher accused of leading an armed standoff against U.S. land management agents (all times local):

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The Nevada rancher and states' rights figure who was freed after federal charges were dismissed in an armed standoff with government agents says the county sheriff and the governor are the only authorities he recognizes.

Two days after being freed from federal custody, rancher Cliven Bundy arrived at the entrance of Metro Police's headquarters, trying to speak to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, asking him to protect civilians' "life, liberty and property."

The meeting did not take place, so Bundy, 71, went on with the scheduled news conference, which was in part a gathering of supporters who cheered the rancher's remarks.

"Sheriff Lombardo," said Bundy, appearing in front of his family, allies and reporters, "are you going to represent we the people, or are you going to represent the federal bureaucracy?"

Rancher Cliven Bundy no longer faces federal charges in the 2014 Nevada standoff, but that doesn't mean his legal fight with the Justice Department is over.

Attorney Larry Klayman said Mr. Bundy is considering filing lawsuits for malicious prosecution and civil-rights violations stemming from the court battle that ended Monday with a federal judge dismissing all charges against him over "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct."

Mr. Klayman, a conservative activist and former Justice Department lawyer who has represented Mr. Bundy on other matters, said the newly freed 71-year-old rancher may also file ethics complaints against federal prosecutors.

In a blistering rebuke to the federal government, a judge dismissed all charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and militia member Ryan Payne stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.

Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro issued a scathing analysis of the government's conduct, terming it "outrageous."

"There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient," she said.

"The government's conduct in this case was indeed outrageous," said U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro. "There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient."

The judge issued her ruling before a packed courtroom with nearly 100 spectators inside and more than a dozen others waiting outside the doors. Cliven Bundy's lawyer put his arm around his client. Supporters held hands, wiped tears from their eyes and hugged. One looked up and whispered, "Thank you, Lord.''

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy didn't seem to have much of a chance in his legal battle with the federal government, but he now finds himself with the upper hand entering Monday's court hearing as the Justice Department's case against him falls apart.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gloria Navarro is slated to consider whether to dismiss the charges against the 2014 Nevada standoff's ringleaders — Mr. Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and Ryan Payne — after she declared a mistrial last month over the government's withholding of evidence.

Larry Klayman calls on citizens to join him in 'fight against government tyranny'

By Larry Klayman
WND
December 29, 2017

About four years ago, in the spring of 2014, shortly after the successful Bunkerville standoff (see ClivenBundyDefenseFund.org) — where Cliven Bundy, his wife, sons and family, along with hundreds of peaceful protesters, stood down a tyrannical Bureau of Land Management — I traveled to the ranch to meet Cliven.

At the time, Cliven was in the midst of a firestorm over his comments that he and his loved ones had been treated by the federal government — which falsely claimed to own the land that the Bundy family had grazed cattle on and ranched for about 150 years — like the Negro in the Old South.

Trump should immediately direct Attorney General Jeff Sessions to halt the lengthy and unfair prosecution of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. The nearly four-year old prosecution of Bundy, his sons, and a number of their many supporters, has been more than a prosecution. It has been a crusade; begun under former Attorney General Eric Holder in 2014, continued all this past year by an interim career prosecutor in Las Vegas, and abetted by a federal judge appointed by Obama and whose animus toward Bundy is palpable.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions had just decided to review the bungled case against Cliven Bundy and his family when he got some advice from a lawyer who's been trying to have the Department of Justice get it straight for months.

"It is hoped that after a thorough investigation, that you will fire and thus prevent [FBI agents] from doing further harm to not just the Bundys, but also the public at large. They also should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, as they are not above the law," said lawyer Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch and Judicial Watch.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A mistrial in the federal prosecution of a family of ranchers who led an armed standoff against government agents prompted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to launch an investigation into the case and renewed calls for a broad review of U.S. attorneys in Las Vegas.

"You can bet that, suddenly, Sessions is asking, 'Who's our U.S. attorney in Nevada?'" Rory Little, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, said Friday. "And somebody says, 'Well, we don't have one.' And they put it on a fast-track."

Larry Klayman's open letter to DOJ chief results in plan to review case

By Larry Klayman
WND
December 22, 2017

Dear Jeff:

As you know, shortly after your confirmation as attorney general early this year, we spoke by phone. During our conversation, I requested that you review the criminal prosecution of my client Cliven Bundy and by extension his sons Ryan, Ammon, Dave and Mel, as well as the other defendants. I explained that this prosecution was unwarranted, it apparently having been forced on former Attorney General Loretta Lynch by former President Barack Obama and then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The latter had defamed the Bundy family as "domestic terrorists" after they and their supporters waged a successful peaceful armed protest, as a result of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents, many of whom were paid mercenaries and snipers, invaded Bunkerville with the intent and purpose of seizing their cattle, denying them their grazing and water rights, and thus forcing the Bundys off the land they had ranched for around 150 years.

Judge Navarro declared a mistrial in the trial of Cliven Bundy. Reports say Navarro faulted the prosecution for not turning over evidence to the defense. But the trail came under increased scrutiny after a scathing report came to light recently about the government's handling of the case.

Despite this ruling, there are many and varied issues that have come to the foreground as a result of the Bundy case and the ensuing armed stand off at Bunkerville. And so we bring you the following exclusive interview below:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped into the Bundy prosecution after Wednesday's mistrial, ordering a third-party examination of the case in light of the latest government snafu.

"The attorney general takes this issue very seriously and has personally directed that an expert in the [Justice Department's] discovery obligations be deployed to examine the case and advise as to the next steps," said Ian D. Prior, the department's principal deputy director of public affairs, in a late Wednesday statement.

The decision to intervene came after Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial over the government's "willful failure to disclose information" to the defense, saying it would have been "impossible" for the four co-defendants to receive a fair trial.

A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case involving Cliven Bundy and his two sons after she found prosecutors "willfully" failed to turn over evidence related to an armed standoff three years ago.

U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro pointed to several violations of the Brady rule — which requires prosecutors to disclose evidence that could be favorable to a defendant — and then dismissed the jury.

It's not like the FBI isn't under fire already, with its unwillingness to refer charges against Hillary Clinton amid evidence she mishandled classified information and the investigation by mostly Clinton-supporting investigators into allegations the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.

Now, there's another issue: Two men acquitted of charges in the 2014 Bunkerville, Nevada, standoff involving rancher Cliven Bundy are suing the FBI and former Director James Comey for "malicious prosecution," claiming the bureau presented false evidence in their case and destroyed exculpatory evidence.

Bundy Attorney Klayman Asking Court to Order Immediate Investigation and Dismissal of Bundy Prosecution By Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General Based on Destruction and Hiding of Exculpatory Evidence and Lying by Government

(Washington, D.C., December 18, 2017). Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, today announced that a federal judge of the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia, the Honorable Rudolph Cantreras, will hold an expedited hearing on December 19, 2017, concerning allegations that the Acting U.S. Attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, the FBI and the Bureau of Land Management have engaged in a concerted pattern and practice of destroying crucial evidence and lying under oath and otherwise, that severely prejudices the rights of Cliven Bundy and his sons, as well as the other defendants to a fair trial.

This hearing results from a complaint that Klayman, who is representing Cliven Bundy in his private capacity, filed, asking the Court (Case Number 1:17-cv-02429) to order that the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and Inspector General (IG) expeditiously investigate these allegations, which have arisen in the Las Vegas prosecution. Klayman had previously filed administrative complaints with the OPR and the IG, but they failed to act, obviously to cover up government wrongdoing. Sadly, this has become common place among these government agencies of late, in particular the Justice Department and its FBI.

Klayman had this to say about the upcoming hearing:

"As a former prosecutor of the Justice Department, I am sickened by the rank corruption that has infested both my alma mater and its FBI. It's time that this be stopped and the Cliven Bundy prosecution would be a good place to start. If Cliven, his sons and co-defendants cannot get a fair trial because evidence has been destroyed, hidden and lied about, then we no longer live in a democracy, and all of us are in grave jeopardy."

Cliven Bundy, the 71-year-old rancher who sparked a national debate over states' rights, refused a federal judge's offer to be released from jail during his ongoing trial on Wednesday.

Bundy, who engaged in an armed standoff with government agents over a cattle round-up in 2014, turned down the judge's option of house arrest while others involved in the standoff are still jailed awaiting trial.

The eldest son of a Nevada rancher and states' rights figure told a federal jury on Wednesday he believes protesters and self-styled militia members saved his life when they arrived in April 2014 after government agents used dogs and stun guns against his family members ahead of a gunpoint showdown that ended a cattle roundup.

"We didn't know who they were," Ryan Bundy said of the hundreds of people who answered a family call for support after news reports and internet accounts of family scuffles with agents and contract cowboys collecting cattle from hardscrabble rangeland northeast of Las Vegas.

Late Thursday I filed a lawsuit against against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray in their official capacities, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Inspector General (IG) over their failure to conduct an investigation into the bad faith and gross prosecutorial abuse by federal prosecutors and the destruction and hiding of material exculpatory evidence by the DOJ, FBI and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the ongoing criminal prosecution of Cliven Bundy and his sons Ryan and Ammon. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Case No. 1:17-cv-02429). Today, I will be filing a motion to have the case heard on an emergency basis. You can go to www.clivenbundydefensefund.org for updates.

(Washington, D.C., November 10, 2017). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, announced a lawsuit filed in his private capacity on behalf of Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who stood up to government tyranny under the Obama administration.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Case No. 1:17-cv-02429) against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray in their official capacities, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Inspector General (IG) over their failure to conduct an investigation into the bad faith and gross prosecutorial abuse by federal prosecutors and the destruction and hiding of material exculpatory evidence by the DOJ, FBI and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the ongoing criminal prosecution.

I write to you with great urgency. Finally, Cliven Bundy is going to trial on October 30, 2017 and the trial, which is being presided over by a hostile handpicked political judge, chosen by the corrupt former Senator Harry Reid and nominated by former President Barack Hussein Obama, has my client within her crosshairs.

The federal judge in the District of Nevada, Gloria Navarro, has already tried to subvert prior trials of Cliven's co-defendants. Here is what even the mainstream Las Vegas Newspaper had to say about the judge's unconstitutional and unlawful misconduct and the Obama holdover prosecutors that want Cliven's head because he and his family stood up to an Obama and Reid run federal government:

"Government prosecutors have a friend in U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro.

The judge is presiding over the retrial of four defendants charged with various crimes stemming from their participation in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff near Cliven Bundy's ranch. The first trial ended in April with the jury deadlocked on all counts involving the four men.

On Monday, the judge eviscerated the defense's legal strategy, putting off limits a whole host of issues that might make it more difficult for the government to win convictions. The defendants will be forbidden from arguing that they were exercising their constitutional rights to peaceably assemble and bear arms. They may not highlight the actions of BLM agents in the days leading up to the incident or mention federal gaffes such as the ill-advised "First Amendment" zone created for protesters.

And if imposing these restrictions on the defense wasn't enough, Judge Navarro ruled that prosecutors may introduce testimony about the four accused men and their associations with so-called militia groups.

Judge Navarro made a similar ruling before the first trial. She is going to extraordinary lengths to address prosecution fears of "jury nullification," in which jurors refuse to convict based on a belief that the law or potential punishment is unjust. The practice dates to 1734, when a jury ignored statutes and acquitted publisher John Peter Zenger on charges of criticizing New York's new colonial governor, accepting arguments from Mr. Zenger's attorney, Alexander Hamilton, that the newspaper had simply published the truth.

Federal prosecutors have encountered unexpected difficulty – both here and in Oregon – in securing convictions against those protesting federal control of Western public lands. But the issue here isn't whether one believes the Bundy defendants are courageous freedom fighters or zealous lunatics. Rather it's whether a judge should usurp the rights of the defendants to have a jury of their peers consider their arguments alongside the law, evidence and other testimony.

Judge Navarro's sweeping order reflects a deep mistrust of the American jury system."

The reason that Cliven was prosecuted in the first place, after a successful standoff at the ranch which his family has ranched for over 150 years, is because Obama, that reverse racist, and his then equally reverse racist attorney general Loretta Lynch, took offense when he referred to his plight, in being persecuted by the government, as similar to the "Negro" in the old South.

Cliven is not politically correct according to leftist standards, and indeed, even the great civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, referred to his people in this way as Negros. Thus, Cliven did nothing wrong, but the hateful likes of Obama and Lynch, who see racism around every corner, then indicted Cliven for simply standing down Obama's and Reid's goons, after patriots flocked to his family ranch, armed in self-defense as was their legal right under our Second Amendment.

They had seen this treatment on Fox News and other conservative media and were concerned that the family's life was being threatened, Cliven's sister Margaret assaulted and thrown to the ground, his dog viciously kicked and his cattle killed and buried in a secret mass grave – all designed to drive Cliven and his clan off the land, so Reid could sell it to the Chinese or other interests.

It is likely that Reid and his crooked lawyer son, Rory – who was negotiating this sleazy deal – another Las Vegas mafia type, would then get illegal kickbacks from the Chinese when they purchased the land.

This whole affair smells to high heaven, yet even our new attorney general Jeff Sessions has buried his head in the sand and won't end this persecution of Cliven and his family. This, as I explain in my recent column on www.wnd.com, is because Sessions himself is under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller over phony allegations of Russian collusion, and Sessions is on the defensive since the left, as occurred with Cliven, has repeatedly and falsely accused him too of being a racist.

I personally spoke with Sessions months ago and he promised to review Cliven's prosecution, but now he is nowhere to be found. This is typical of the Washington DC Republican establishment that is afraid of its shadow every time the left brands them as racist against African-Americans and others.

And that is why we need your urgent and strong financial support. Cliven's trial will last 3 to 4 months and I must be there to fully participate in his defense. In this regard, I am currently before the Supreme Court, asking it to order Judge Navarro – that biased judge – to allow me to be counsel of record, as she has thus far illegally kept me out of the case, as she obviously fears that I will wage a powerful defense of Cliven.

Doing Obama and Reid's bidding – the persons Navarro owes for her judgeship – Navarro is doing all she can to get Cliven and the others convicted. For Cliven this would be a life sentence as he is already 71 years old. But even if the Supreme Court does not put politics aside and order her to let me in as counsel of record, I can and will play a major role in preparing Cliven for trial, interviewing witnesses, working with local counsel on trial strategy and other important matters such as defending Cliven's wife, Carol, who Judge Navarro outrageously has also suggested on more than one occasion should be criminally charged.

This is in line with Reid having called the entire Bundy family "domestic terrorists." In short, I must be there for months. This will be very costly.

This case is not just about Cliven and his family and the other defendants' right to bear arms in self-defense, but also about freedom of speech. The Bundys did not harm a hair on the head of any federal agent, yet the federal agents, and hired mercenaries, used brutal force to threaten their lives and beat the living heck out of them, not to mention destroyed their herd and thus the family's livelihood. And, the real kicker is that the federal government does not even own the land that the family ranches on, so the federal court of Judge Navarro does not have jurisdiction over Cliven. I am filing soon a civil suit to have a state court in Nevada to enforce its rights to the land, which was seized from it by the federal government to extort monies from ranchers such as Cliven, by charging them grazing fees and imposing absurd and unreasonable environmental restrictions which have driven hundreds of other ranchers out of business. Cliven and his family are one of the few ranchers left standing and they have been persecuted for standing up to an oppressive federal government then run by Obama and Reid, two hateful leftists who wanted to destroy ranching throughout the Western states.

Yesterday, it was Cliven Bundy and his family who were brutalized. Tomorrow it could be you and your loved ones if we do not prevail at trial and show the federal government a legal lesson.

The Obama/Clinton Deep State still controls the Justice Department and its compromised politically leftist prosecutors, and attorney general Sessions are nowhere to be found.

Thus, we need your urgent strong financial support to win an acquittal after a bruising 3-4 month trial, and by doing so not only save Cliven but also the vision of our Founding Fathers, who declared independence on July 4, 1776, to seek redress from a despot as bad as Obama and Harry Reid, King George III, who committed unspeakable acts. We fought a revolution to prevent this tyranny and now we must renew the republic by defeating the Deep State Obama and Reid tyrants at trial!

Finally, just in the last few weeks Cliven unsuccessfully tried to let go his local counsel because he did not adequately prepare for trial. I must now step in and work with the local counsel to prepare for trial and to wage a strong defense.

By Tay Wiles, High Country News
The NM Political Report
September 4, 2017

Last month a Las Vegas jury acquitted two men – Ricky Lovelien of Montana and Steven Stewart of Idaho – for their parts in the 2014 armed standoff between the federal government and supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy. The jury found co-defendants Eric Parker and Scott Drexler not guilty of most charges but deadlocked on some. When it comes to trying the Bundys and their supporters, federal prosecutors now have a terrible record, winning just two convictions after two trials of six defendants in Nevada this year. Last fall, Bundy's sons Ryan and Ammon Bundy and five others were acquitted for leading an armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in early 2016.

Klayman Asks DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General to Investigate and Order Attorney General and His Staff To Expeditiously Review Bundy Case For Gross Prosecutorial Misconduct and to Take Appropriate Remedial Action to Prevent Injustice

(Washington, D.C., August 28, 2017). Today, Larry Klayman, a former federal prosecutor and the founder of Freedom Watch and before that Judicial Watch, announced the filing of a complaint with the Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning the failure of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to uphold his oath of office and his prior commitment to Klayman to neutrally review the on-going Bundy prosecution. This prosecution, as has been widely reported, is rife with gross prosecutorial misconduct by DOJ attorneys under Sessions' supervision and control, such as the acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Mayre. This prosecutorial misconduct has been furthered and compounded by the presiding judge Gloria Navarro, who was recommended to the bench by former Nevada Senator Harry Reid. Reid had previously publicly defamed the Bundys as "domestic terrorists" in transparent attempt to taint jury pools. This complaint, which is embedded below and which can be found at www.clivenbundydefensefund.org, is self explanatory.

Those seeking information should contact daj142182@<NOSPAM>gmail.com or (424) 274 2579.

The political prosecution of Cliven Bundy, his sons and tens of other defendants is an outrage begun by President Barack Obama and his Justice Department, then run by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, essentially because Cliven used the word "Negro" in commenting that he and his family could appreciate how African-Americans were mistreated by the federal government, given how this same federal government, under Obama and Lynch, with the aid of former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, had attempted to enslave them, too. As just one example of how Obama took offense and then threatened Cliven, just watch the video below.

Many of y’all know the story, but none of us as of yet knows the ending. In the spring of 2014, the federal government, led by Sen. Harry Reid’s (aka “Dirty Harry”) hand-picked head of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), who he not coincidentally had President Obama appoint, violently invaded the ranch of Cliven Bundy, his wife and his sons and daughters, with its army of armed federal agents and mercenaries, to throw the Bundys off the land they had ranched at Bunkerville, Nevada, for nearly 150 years.

Cliven Bundy and his sons have been arrested by federal agents and are currently being held in prison in solitary confinement, awaiting trial. Cliven was denied bail after prosecutors described him as "lawless and violent." The Bundys' own senator from Nevada, Democrat Harry Reid, has labeled the Bundy family "domestic terrorists," putting them in the same class as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden.

In reality, unlike those who wish to harm America and the American people, the Bundys care very deeply about this country and what it stands for. They are men of faith and honor who respect the rule of law. They deserve better.

Cliven Bundy deserves a fair and just trial. But that won't come easy, with so much going against him. He will need a competent and capable legal defense. To mount an effective defense, Cliven Bundy needs your strong financial support.

You can't imagine what it's like here on the ranch without my husband and four of my sons – being held without bail – political prisoners of Barack Obama's "Justice" department.

Maybe you haven't heard that Cliven was, until recently, being held in solitary confinement without bail – unjustly imprisoned for being a God-fearing, honest, law-abiding, hard-working patriot.

I never thought anything like this could happen in America. Yet it is happening to my family! Cliven's even being denied his choice of counsel, and is being treated as guilty 'til proven innocent. In our case, the Constitution means nothing!

That's because everything Obama and his henchmen have charged Cliven with has been completely fabricated – just one more attempt by Obama and Harry Reid to use the government to intimidate us into giving up our livelihood – cattle ranching.

Asks For Dismissal Of Indictment And Release From Solitary Confinement

(Las Vegas, Nevada, May 10, 2016). Today, Cliven Bundy filed a complaint against U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, the son of Harry Reid, Rory Reid and President Barack Obama for allegedly violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and For Speedy Trial, Eighth Amendment Right Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Mr. Bundy is currently being held in solitary confinement), Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms in Self-Defense, and First Amendment Right to Assemble in Self-Defense. The complaint can be found at www.larryklayman.com.

The complaint asks the Court to dismiss the indictment against Cliven Bundy and release him from prison and solitary confinement.

Cliven Bundy's attorneys will discuss the complaint following the hearing at 10:00 a.m. on the courthouse steps.

For more information, contact daj142182@<NOSPAM>gmail.com or (424) 274 2579.

More than two years ago, the nation was spellbound as the family of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and other cowboys who supported the patriarch’s God-given right to defend his land at Bunkerville, Nevada, stood down a tyrannical Obama administration bent on seizing the Bundy homestead.

The false excuse used by Obama’s Bureau of Land Management, or BLM: The federal government, rather than the state of Nevada, owned the land that the Bundy family’s cattle grazed on, that the Bundys thus owed grazing fees to the federal government, and, incredibly, that this ranching was killing a so-called endangered species tortoise.